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ArticleeNeuro2024

Cortical Face-Selective Responses Emerge Early in Human Infancy.

Heather L Kosakowski, Michael A Cohen, Lyneé Herrera, Isabel Nichoson, Nancy Kanwisher, Rebecca Saxe

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Article in eNeuro, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The cortical scene processing network emerges in infancy, prior to independent navigation experience.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Faces and Word Forms Can Coexist in the Right Ventro-occipital Temporal Cortex-Evidence from Left-Hemisphere Perinatal Stroke.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  8. The Emergence of Topography and Hemispheric Lateralization in High-Level Vision.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026
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  9. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2026
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  10. Emergence of Neural Face Selectivity in Infants Younger Than 4 Months Old.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2026
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  16. Early Neural Development of Social Interaction Perception: Evidence from Voxel-Wise Encoding in Young Children and Adults.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  17. Development of Higher-Level Vision: A Network Perspective.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Heather L KosakowskiDepartment of Psychology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 heatherlkosakowski@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5689-0426
Michael A CohenDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
Lyneé HerreraPsychology Department, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210.
Isabel NichosonTulane Brain Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5322-8258
Nancy KanwisherDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-7885
Rebecca SaxeDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-1791

Funding

Upgrade to 3 Tesla MRI scanner for brain imaging at MITS10OD021569 · OD · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GABRIELI, JOHN · 2016 to 2016
$600k
Precision Mapping of Midbrain and Striatum NetworksK00DA058542 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Heather Lynne Kosakowski · 2023 to 2026
$353k
Function of high-level visual cortex in awake infants.F99NS124175 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KOSAKOWSKI, HEATHER LYNNE · 2021 to 2021
$45k
NIDA NIH HHS K00 DA058542NIH HHS S10 OD021569NINDS NIH HHS F99 NS124175
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In human adults, multiple cortical regions respond robustly to faces, including the occipital face area (OFA) and fusiform face area (FFA), implicated in face perception, and the superior temporal sulcus (STS) and medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), implicated in higher-level social functions. When in development, does face selectivity arise in each of these regions? Here, we combined two awake infant functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets to create a sample size twice the size of previous reports (

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Brain MappingFacial RecognitionMagnetic Resonance ImagingCerebral CortexChild DevelopmentFemaleHumansInfantMalePhotic Stimulationcerebral cortexfacesFFAfMRIinfant brainMPFCOFASTS

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PMID38871455
PMCPMC11258539

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